"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot" - Aldo Leopold

2010/12/09

Photos from my birding Sunday

These photos were from Sunday when I biked to Terra Nova to do some bird watching. It was cloudy with some sunny breaks but at least it wasn't raining.

The background and the silhouette really caught my attention and deserved a photo.My mother came back to Richmond last Wednesday and she brought back a replacement lens cap for me. I went to the spot to check on the lost one but it had disappeared! I suppose wind or something blew it off the plank and into the water.

Then well-known eagle nest by the golf course. Both adults were present at the time!

Magnificent creature!

Off to find some food.

Then I arrived at the Terra Nova Natural Area where a relatively large group of Snow Geese was found beside the sharing farm. The sun shone through the clouds and gave me good lighting to capture some goose-in-flight shots.

Probably my favorite shot of the day.

After spending at least ten minutes photographing the geese, it was time to check other places out.

Shy finch eying a red fruit.

Yum!

A Great Blue Heron was a couple of metres away from me staring into the grass. I waited for it to do something exciting, but no luck.

Then it was pretty much time to go home because it would be almost completely dark by the time I biked back to our house.

Yellowlegs in the ditch.Sunset.

A good birding Sunday. Oh yeah, I also saw my first Hooded Merganser pair in the ditch along No. 3 Road. But the cars were passing me that photographing on the point would be kind of dangerous. Nevertheless, it was nice to see them pretty birds again..